Flight attendants across major airlines are increasingly calling attention to passenger boarding habits that slow aircraft departures and create unnecessary operational disruptions.
Unruly Passengers
Flight attendants say passengers reveal a great deal about themselves within seconds of boarding an aircraft.
A Jet2 (LS) flight from Izmir Adnan Menderes Airport (ADB) to Manchester Airport (MAN) avoided a possible diversion after a passenger and his young son intervened to calm a disruptive traveler mid-flight.
American Airlines (AA) passengers brawled on final approach to Miami International Airport (MIA) when a dispute over armrest space turned physical.
Ryanair flight FR from Dublin was delayed over 1 hour after a 7:40 pm takeoff abort; the passenger was removed, new crew boarded.
A physical education teacher from Northern Ireland has been sentenced after assaulting a cabin crew member aboard an easyJet (U2) flight operating from Hurghada International Airport (HRG) to Belfast International Airport (BFS).
Delta Connection passenger gets 18 months in federal prison after threatening an elderly flight attendant and disrupting flight safety.
Passengers on American Airlines (AA) flight 4586 from New York JFK (JFK) to Indianapolis (IND) reported that a customer was physically shoved twice by another traveler on December 27 before the 8 p.m. departure.
A former cabin crew member with 45 years of service says the decline in courtesy is not accidental but the result of structural changes in modern aviation.
A businessman who sexually assaulted multiple cabin crew members aboard a Jet2 (LS) holiday flight has been sentenced to prison following an incident over the Porto Santo diversion that disrupted a family-packed service to Spain.